Baroness Vickersasked Her Majesty's Government:
What further assistance they will make available to refugees and victims of the African famine.
§ The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Young)Her Majesty's Government have made available a further £3 million for spending in the current financial year. Of this, £1.5 million is being allocated to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; £500,000 to the League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies; and £1 million to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
These sums are additional to the £750,000 approved last month, of which £500,000 was for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and £250,000 for the International Committee of the Red Cross.